Lecture Series: ‘You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry’
Saturday, 11 October, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Join us for the final installment of this compelling three-part lecture series presented in conjunction with Dallas Contemporary’s current exhibition, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Each session is facilitated by local Art History professors who delve deeper into the ideas and histories that shape the works on display.

In this third and final lecture of the series, Tiffany Floyd will discuss Yto Barrada's Geological Time Scale as part of the artist's larger interests in the political constructions of history.

Tiffany Floyd is currently a lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas). She received her PhD in Art History from Columbia University with a dissertation centered on understanding the relationship between Iraqi modern art and the country's rich antique past. Her dissertation was a co-winner of the 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award. Tiffany’s research interests include the politics of archaeology and time, petromodernity, postcolonial theory, modes of affective reception and the destruction/preservation of Iraq's cultural heritage. She has participated in several field projects, including the Modern Art Iraq Archive (2010-2011) and the Getty-funded Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (2020-2023). Her forthcoming publication, entitled Absence and Ruin in Hanaa Malallah’s The God Marduk, is an object biography that contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008).